Over the past three years, we have worked on developing a well-characterized 30S radioactive beam to be used in a future experiment aiming to directly measure the 30S(alpha,p) stellar reaction rate within the Gamow window of Type I X-ray bursts. The importance of the 30S(alpha,p) reaction to X-ray bursts is discussed. Given the astrophysical motivation, the successful results of and challenges involved in the production of a low-energy 30S beam are detailed. Finally, an overview of our future plans regarding this on-going project are presented.
@article{arxiv.1010.4928,
title = {30S Beam Development and X-ray Bursts},
author = {D. Kahl and A. A. Chen and S. Kubono and D. N. Binh and J. Chen and T. Hashimoto and S. Hayakawa and D. Kaji and A. Kim and Y. Kurihara and N. H. Lee and S. Nishimura and Y. Ohshiro and K. Setoodeh nia and Y. Wakabayashi and H. Yamaguchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.4928},
year = {2011}
}
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7 pages, 2 figures, 5th European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, Santa Tecla, Sicily, September 2009